Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of The Liberator, Boston, December 21, 1860, 4pp., tanned and minor fold splits have been repaired. Two thirds of the front page is taken with reports and letters regarding the Boston Riot which occured earlier in December. The abolitionist meeting was in honor of the anniversary of the execution of John Brown. Several column headlines include “The Two Bostons,” Ebullition of Patriotic Sentiment,” The Boston Rioters,” The Reign of Terror, “ Freedom of Speech Violated in Boston,” and “Vindication of Mobocracy.” In very small part, “It was no more respectable and no more contemptible for Richard S. Fay.. to insult Mr. Frederick Douglass ... The kidnapping of John Thomas was hardly so illustrious a deed, as the forcible ejection of Mr. Frederick Douglass from a hall hired and paid for by his personal friends ...”
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